Discover the Hugh Duncan Collection at Bowers Museum and the kinetic energy captured in his plein air vistas in the latest Bowers Blog! We are thrilled to feature late California painter Hugh Duncan (American, 1924–2001) in this edition of the New Acquisitions Series. Thanks to a generous gift from the Irene Duncan Family Trust and Larry Duncan, his son, Bowers now holds 142 of Duncan’s watercolor and oil paintings—the largest institutional collection of his work to date. This substantial acquis